Garment-fastening.



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; GARMENT FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1905.

WITNESSES! I I mmvronz J h B f M y mi:

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JOSEPH BISOHOF, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-FASTENING. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratnadnec. 5, 1905.

Application filed May 23, 1905. Serial No. 261,797;

zen of the United States, and a resident of Bos-,

ton, in the county of Suffolk and State of'Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Fastening, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to garment; fastenings; and it consists, substantially; in the improvements hereinafter more particularly described, and pointed out in the claim.-

In the use of many of the ordinary hookand-eye fastenings for garments and the like it frequently happens that the cloth beneath the eye becomes worn by constant movable contact therewith of the bill or other portion of the hook, resulting sometimes inv the eye becoming detached from the cloth and in nearlyall cases necessitating the patching or darning of the cloth both to repair the worn spots therein and to provide a reinforce by which to again secure the eye in place.

One of the principal objects of the presentinvention is to overcome the above-mentioned and other disadvantages and objections frequently encountered in the use of many contrivances hitherto devised for similar purposes. A further object is to provide an eye of an ordinary hook-and-eye fastening which is simple in construction and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, besides being easily attached to the garment on which employed, thoroughly effective and reliable in use, and possessing the capacity for long and repeated service.

The above and additional objects are attained by means substantially. such as are ,shown in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference 1nd1cate corresponding parts in all the views. I

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an eyefastening embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is a side view.

Before proceeding with a more detailed description it may be stated that in the form of my improvements herein shown I employ an eye-fastening of special construction comprising the usual means for receiving the bill or engaging portion of an ordinary hook cooperating therewith and comprising special means for attaching the eye in place upon a eye and a suitable distance beyond the same,

.to prevent contact of any portion of the hook with the cloth or other material of the garment.

While I have herein represented my improvements in a certain preferred embodiment, it will be understood, of course, that I am not limited thereto inprecise detail, since immaterial changestherein may he made coming within the scope of my invention.

Reference being had to the drawings by the designating characters thereon, -1. represents my improved eye-fastening in entirety, the same being constructed of a single piece of wire or other suitable material of, proper length bent at 2 and havingthe two members thereof thus formed curved at 3 to form the eye proper, 3, for receiving the bill or engaging portion of an ordinary hook 4, (see' dotted lines, Figs. 2 and 3,) said members being brought together at 5 in'completion of said eye proper, whence they are turned outwardly again at 6 to form loops 7 the members being then brought together. parallelly at 8 for a suitable distance beneath and beyond the eye proper, whence they arebent outwardly from each other at 9 and returned upon themselves parallelly to form loops 10 opposite to the loops 7, the free extremities 1"1 ofthe members being carried in contact with the centrally-disposed portions of the body of the eye, as shown. In this way it will be seen that a bearing-surface is provided between the eye proper and the surface of the cloth 12 of the garment or the like, to ,which the device maybe secured in any suitable way, as by means of stitching 13, passed through both sets of eyes 7 and 10 of the device. Other meansmay be employed for fastening the device to the cloth of the garment, as will be apparent, and it is thought that the advantages and operation of my improved eye-fastening will be fully understood without further detailed description.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new'and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A fastening for garments comprising an eye formed of a single piece of metal bent centrally and having the members thereof brought together in curved portions to form the eye proper, thence bent outwardly and beneath and beyond the eye proper to form loops, and

parallel portions in contact With each other,

and finally returned upon themselves parallelly to form other loops, the free portions being in contact with thefirst-mentioned parallel portions.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification 1n the presence of two subscribing wltnesses.

JOSEPH BISCHOF.

Witnesses ANTON FRIESE, ANTON SoHLIoH'rs. 

